Sectional bed frame



A. H. SHEARER.

SECTIO NAL BED FRAME. APPLICATION FlLED APR. 14, 1920.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

UNITED STAT ES ADAM H. SHEABER, or YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

- SECTIONAL BED FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14, 1920. Serial No. 373,888.

skilled in the art to which it appertains' to make and use the same.

This invention relates to bed bottoms of fabric, and more especially to the frames thereof which are made in sections so that they may be folded; and the object of the same is to produce an improved hinge connection for use at the meeting ends of the sections of the head rail and foot rail.

The invention consists in a hinge specially constructed for use at this point. Referring to the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of one end of a two-part spring bed, showing its sections as connected by this improved hinge and as opened out.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, on an enlarged scale.

Figure 3 is a detail of the members of the hinge.

The numerals 10 and 11 denote a pair of hinged bed sections, each consisting of two tubular side rails 12, knees or risers 13 at their ends, and angle iron cross rails 14 carried by the upper-ends of the knees, and to and between which the fabric 15 is stretched as usual. If we assume that the entire structure is of the width of the ordinary double bed, then each section should be half that width and the ends of the head and foot rails 14 should abut each other when the sections are opened out as seen in Figure 1. But when the structure is to be reduced to smaller compass for storage or transportation, it becomes desirable to fold one section onto the other; and for this urpose the innor portions of abutting end rails are connected by an improved form of hinge which constitutes in this combination the essence of the present invention.

The hinge is composed of two leaves whose bodies 20 and 21 are substantially square and pierced with central holes 22, a neck 23 rises obliquely from one corner of the body 20 and a neck 24 from one corner of the body 21, and these necks are deflected a little out of the planes of their bodies so that they lap each other, their outer ends being rounded as shown, and through the centers of said rounded ends is passed a rivet 25, its head 26 being on what'might be called the outer face of the outer neck 24, and its 1nner end being upset at 27 against the inner face of the inner neck 23. Across the upper edge of the body 20 is a flange 30, this flange extending along the upper edge of the neck 23 as at 33, and around the rounded end of the same as at 37 so that it is continuous of the neck and encloses the upset end 27 of the rivet. Across the upper edge of the other leaf-body 21 is another flange 31, but

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this flange is carried only part way up the neck 24.

When the leaves of this hinge are applied to the bed-frame structure, their bodies. 20 and 21 are laid against the outer faces of the depending webs of the cross rails 14, and their flanges 30 and 31 respectively upon the upper faces of said cross rails as best seen in Figure 1, their necks at this time extending upwardly and over-lying, with their side faces in mutual contact and the flange portion 37 of the neck 22 directed away from the neck 24. The pivot pin 25 connecting the necks stands directly over the line where the extremities of said cross rails meet. Bolts 39 are now passed through the holes in the leaves, and through alining holes in the depending webs of the rails, and are carried onward through the upper ends of the knees or risers, and their nuts applied. Thus the sections of the head rail and those of the foot rail will be hingedly connected, and the bolts which attach the hinges to the sections will also attach the risers thereto, so that only a single bolt is necessary at each corner of a bed section. The rivet or pivot between the hinges is wholly above the upper faces of the spring bed fabric, and when the bed is to be folded one section can be swung completel over onto-the other in a manner which wi 1 be clear. The rounded upper ends of the necks of the hinge leaves are inconspicuous and made as small as possible, and the bedding will not catch thereon. The extension of the flange around the head of one leaf gives it additlonal strength and forms a housing for the upset end of the rivet, so that the clothing cannot catch thereon. It is even possible to substitute a bolt, and set up its nut within the housi g thus produced, but as this would be the use of an obvious equivalent, it is hardly necessar to illustrate the same.

t will be understood upon reference, to Figures 2 and 3 ol the drawings, that the bottom of the flange 37 at the underside of the neck 23', is on a level with the underside of the flange portion 30, so that the bottom of flange 37 likewise rests upon the upper surface of the'corresponding cross rail web to give corresponding strength to the struccorresponding webs and having each a flange along an edge disposed upon the other web of its rail, the plates having necks extending beyond those webs upon which their flanges rest respectively, the necks being overlapped and contacting and pivotally connected, the flange of one plate extending continuously of the edge of the neck of that plate and resting at the under side of the neck upon the same rail web with the corresponding body flange of that plate.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

ADAM H. SHEARER.

lVitnesses JAS. J. LOGAN, FRED W. LOGAN. 

